Another reason for different versions of the documentation for different releases. The fact is that some people - particularly risk conscious corporate users - will continue to use 2.4 and not jump to 3.0 until another rev or two are out the door.
Regarding Open source friendly tech writers - I think that could work, but it's got to take a little formal organization from the inside too. I can see tech writers donating their writing services, but they probably would like to have some established procedures for how to access information, style conventions and the like. I see that they sort of information is available for developers, I haven't seen it for tech writers (which doesn't mean much since I've only been following things actively for a couple of weeks). I would provide some tech writing services pro-bono, but establishing a procedure for getting the documentation in place is something that takes a little organization. What's the status on JBoss Group's process for developing administration and user documentation? And BTW, this seems to be a good opportunity for plugging "JBoss Administration & Development", coming out on March 22 and doing excellent on sales at Amazon already! Congrats. How does the book do in terms of covering version 3? Mac Rinehart, President Sextant Technology Consulting, Inc Legal stuff: SEXTANT TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING is a trademark of Sextant Technology Consulting, Inc. Any agreement to render services by Mac Rinehart and/or Sextant Technology Consulting, Inc. is contingent upon an agreement in writing and signed by all interested parties. -----Original Message----- From: David Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:42 PM To: Mac Rinehart Cc: Jboss-Development@Lists. Sourceforge. Net; Jboss-User@Lists. Sourceforge. Net Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] RE: [JBoss-user] JBOSS 3.x FINAL It doesn't always lag - sometimes it's too eager! Example: I had a gripe that 2.4 documentation started disappering off the web site, being replaced with 3.0 documentation when 3.0 was only alpha. I think that the 2.4 docs should stay available online - at least until 3.x goes final. Mac Rinehart wrote: > The free user documentation is only moderately useful, and > lags behind development on a number of issues.
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